The Magnificent Goldberg

When I had a tooth pulled a few years ago, I had the same choice - and actually, there are three choices, not two. I had my gap left as it was; obviously the cheapest option and also the least complicated. Of course, it wasn't exactly at the front; fourth from the centre. If it had been, I'd probably have taken one of your options Skeith. Price is a good way of deciding, in my view. How much you want to spend making your mouth looking OK is a very pointed question. MG

I understand it as the version to which one might refer for a standard or an arrangement, chord structure, words or some such matter. MG

Michael Fish Walter Trout Don't tell 'em your name, Pike!

Oh, so the two boxes both have the Swing material. Is that a lot of them or just a bit? I can't get the discography of the Mosaic box up on the site, for some reason. MG

I was going to say Perry Como, before I hit the link to the thread MG

Boy Wonder Stevie Wonder Wonder Woman

I've been wondering about Django lately. If one has the Mosaic HMV & Swing set and the Vogue set, is that more or less it? And it seems silly to ask if those two sets overlap, but do they? MG

Sasha Baron Cohen The Count Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

Hur hur! A few I've found during the year and will be spinning later this month. Don Patterson - Holiday soul - Prestige James Brown - A soulful Christmas - King (Mostly instrumentals, but not traditional songs) James Brown songs Christmas songs - King (more traditional material) MG

The Proles 999 +44

Groove Holmes & Ernie Watts - Come together - PJ Not a bad session this. Had it for years and it always played fine on my old turntables but there's a slight warp and my new one doesn't like the start of side 1. Bugger! MG

How is the presentation of this box set? Presumably the reissue of the original box - I was wondering whether or not they had done a good job or put out a flimsy version. It's a good job. Somewhere above, a couple of months back, there's a comparison with the original box. It seems a few pics may have been missed out, or maybe the print is smaller on the new edition. MG

Sarah Bernhart Leonard Bernstein Sonny Hopson

I've a feeling that BIEM appeared on BN LPs imported into Britain by a different method in the period between the sale of BN to Liberty and Liberty's establishing a UK office of Blue Note - a period of a bit more than a year, if memory serves. Original BNs from the early sixties came through an exclusive importer, whose name I've forgotten, who charged top bucks for the albums. I THINK two of the LPs I got at Dobells shortly before the British office opened - 'Along came John' and 'Brown sugar' - had BIEM stickers. I no longer have either. Chewy has the John Patton disc though. Perhaps he could confirm. Sure he'll be reading this. If BNs in the interregnum came via France or elsewhere in Europe, that could explain the BIEM sticker on British BNs. MG

Sid Gribetz Nat Hentoff Dzondria LaIsaac

Spent most of the day with this Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino) MG

There's been some speculation that "Dzondria" was really Don Robey. Well he did he use the pseudonym "Deadric Malone" when claiming credit on songs, and Deadric and Dzondria sound like they might be first-cousins. A pseudonym for Don Robey would surprise me, because he's a guy I think of as always getting someone else to do the work MG

Problem's gone today! Hippo Select! MG

Exactly my thoughts. Only a long while ago. Maybe a half year back or a whole. I don't know if what I got was the 2013 or the 2012 edition. Now I see it was the 2012 annual edition, with Mingus on the cover instead of Clifford Jordan. So that's how it's standing now: brochure reduced to annual edition. Yes, you can understand it. But if there are fewer, maybe more get read and spur purchases. I can't be the only one MG

Same thing happened with Bob Porter's 'Soul jazz in the black community 1945-1975' - advertised on Amazon in 2005, then nothing. Still expected to be published in Nov 2005 MG

Those are the old counties, aren't they? There's no East & West Sussex, just Sussex. And do I see Rutland in there? Oh, and an undivided Yorkshire. Think I could do a lot of them, but the Lake District and the Midlands. MIGHT get Notts Gotta say, England looks funny without Wales next door. MG

I got 'em, but I can't necessarily spell 'em Massachusetts - oh the spell checker tells me when I'm wrong. Maryland Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi Montana MG

No one seems to be having a problem with IE 11 on other things. Personally, I'd rather stay with IE than go to some other browser that I've got to learn. But it's your ball, Jim. Let us know. MG

I laughed so much my stomach hurts. The American's trying to label European countries is much funnier. MG

What holiday is this? Have a good one, whatever it is. MG